Correlations between Reaction Dynamics Experiments and the Detonation of Explosives

✍ Scribed by Franklin E. Walker

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1990
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 454 KB
• Volume: 15
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0721-3115
• DOI: 10.1002/prep.19900150504

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Data and information reported from reaction dynamics experiments appear to correlate very well with data and calculations from the detonation of chemical explosives. Comparisons are presented of particle and vibratiional velocities, atomic and molecular kinetic energics, time scales for reaction, bond strengths, and shock velocity data. A rationale and method for determining detonation velocities and evidence for rate‐determining kinetics from the reaction dynamics data and molecular dynamics calculations are presented. It is concluded that first order values for detonation characteristics can be calculated from the energy and reaction rate factors considered, and that the methods of reaction dynamics discussed could be applied to the study of probable detonation reactions to give refined quantitative values for detonation processes.